http://blog.seriouschange.org.uk Begone denialists and crusties - Climate Change for the rest of us Sun, 05 Sep 2010 07:52:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en XANAXADDERALL ONLINELevitraCialis onlinePuppies for sale A few months ago I started a new Serious Change project. The aim of the project was to write good responses to online newspaper and blog posts about the UK energy system. Well, after a few months of online meetings, and posting comments, we got pretty good ... http://blog.seriouschange.org.uk/2010/05/11/serious-change-skeptic/ Serious Change is running an Energy Game at the Dana Centre in London. It's part of the Science Museum. http://www.danacentre.org.uk/events/2009/12/03/537 Sign up and go if you would like to. Please also tell your friends, colleagues, family. It should be a fun evening! We're probably going to go for a drink afterwards as well ... http://blog.seriouschange.org.uk/2009/11/09/come-and-play-an-energy-game/ So you think you're green, eh? But I bet you still fly. One return flight to Australia pretty much means that you shouldn't breathe for the next 2 years, let alone burn any fuel!Ok, so you're like me, you don't fly, but you'd really like to. You don't mind things ... http://blog.seriouschange.org.uk/2009/09/10/dying-to-be-flying-by-julian-king/ Here is one picture, from David MacKay, that shows why public support is needed for better energy technology. http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/withouthotair/c18/page_109.shtml There is a public consultationon on Carbon Capture and Storage going on now until 9th September 2009. http://www.decc.gov.uk/en/content/cms/consultations/clean_coal/clean_coal.aspx Drop me an email if you would like to be part of it with other Serious Change ... http://blog.seriouschange.org.uk/2009/06/17/why-the-public-matter/ A few months ago, our friend, Francis Davey gave a speech where he explained the aim of Serious Change is to:   “Change the hearts and minds of people by telling the story of zero carbon Britain and show that this is desirable and getting there will be satisfying.”   Changing hearts and ... http://blog.seriouschange.org.uk/2009/06/01/being-fair/ The Tax Payers Alliance (TPA) is a huge success in terms of how frequently it is quoted and the range of publications it is quoted in.   The basic premise is that people don’t like having ‘their’ money taken away from them, in the form of taxes, and wasted. The TPA ... http://blog.seriouschange.org.uk/2009/05/27/less-is-more/ Here is my three sentence summary of David MacKay's book Sustainable Energy - without the hot air The UK can't live off its own renewable energy with current technology. If we make efficiency savings by electrifying transport and use different heating technology and add in some of: nuclear power, clean coal or other ... http://blog.seriouschange.org.uk/2009/05/23/without-the-hot-air/ I like the Daily Mail. It doesn’t represent my views but I have to admire how powerfully it conveys its messages. It is angry, argumentative and fantastically critical.    Here are two stories that I think, having read the Daily Mail for the last few months, are representative of its ... http://blog.seriouschange.org.uk/2009/05/07/seriously-angry/ This radio program gives some insight into how Obama catered the ‘green’ part of his election campaign to different levels of environmental skepticism. For example he emphasised the gains to the car industry and being competitive with Japan and China in the ‘automobile state’ of Michigan . http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00jrpvs/b00jrpsq/Costing_the_Earth_Obamas_Green_Dream/ It also reinforces the ... http://blog.seriouschange.org.uk/2009/05/06/learning-from-obama/ If you want to get a picture of what energy consumption is like in the UK at present, you can do worse than look at this Energy trends: March 2009: http://www.berr.gov.uk/files/file50354.pdf It is quite useful to have these figures in mind when reading things like David MacKay's Without The Hot ... http://blog.seriouschange.org.uk/2009/05/05/uk-energy-demand/